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Planet Claire
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The grift train keeps rolling down the tracks.
BREAKING NYT:
A billionaire wanted a Trump pardon. His family gave Alina Habba a $50 million deal.
Julio Herrera Velutini, a prominent Venezuelan, was seeking clemency. He got it not long after his daughter gave Habba, a lawyer close to Trump, an extraordinarily lucrative job. nytimes.com/2026/10/20/us/po…
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(THR) - TikTok has banned the entire Musk film account, citing political content that violates its policies.
.. raises concerns about Big Tech suppression that the very film seeks to expose.”
@THR
hollywoodreporter.com/news/p…
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Larry Ellison’s TikTok has shut down the promotional account for Alex Gibney’s Elon Musk documentary. theverge.com/tech/1013453/ti…
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Last night, a woman attended a Trump rally wearing a "Release the Epstein Files" shirt (a core promise of the Trump campaign).
A ruckus ensued, and several MAGA men beat her mercilessly.
While she was being beaten, Trump mocked her from the stage.
Trump is a demonic force on society.
I simply cannot think of any other word to describe it.
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When you’re mad that someone destroyed the bots driving the engagement on your platform, and exposes it as right-wing propaganda machine.
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I don’t think you have a dog in this fight but if you did you would have shot it.
I’ll take @ellalangleymsic over Kacey Musgraves any day.
And if I’m choosin’ Texas, I’ll take Ken Paxton over James Talarico.
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“‘Eric, I really wish you would stop papering all these things,’ Guilfoyle responded. ‘It’s really dangerous and not helpful to you or me while you could simply just call me on signal.’
…A U.S. ambassador lecturing her briber on bribing best practices.”
thebulwark.com/p/our-big-fat…
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Kimberly Guilfoyle was preparing for her congressional hearing to become U.S. ambassador to Greece when she reached out to a Trump donor with an urgent request: She needed $100,000 that she said she owed American Express—in a way that wouldn’t leave a paper trail.
“It won’t show up anywhere if you wire money to American Express,” she wrote on Signal, according to messages reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. “Please.”
w/@DanaMattioli @drewhinshaw @JoeWSJ
wsj.com/politics/policy/guil…
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President Trump directed staff to use taxpayer money for TV ads praising him and his presidency, setting in motion a $20 million contract that used funds from the Department of Homeland Security, according to people familiar with the matter. nyti.ms/4hsdqTz
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In a bid to frame Jack Smith as a liar, Sen. Schmitt (R-Missouri) accused the former special counsel of perjuring himself after he denied attending an Atlanta Hawks game on Feb. 3, 2024.
Smith had attended an University of Iowa Hawkeyes game that day. wapo.st/4yn1PLt
Here is the trailer. See you in the theater: youtube.com/watch?v=FFTf1lzc…
The 3-hour-and-45-minute “Musk” (plus a 10-minute intermission) hits theaters on Oct. 16, but it’s already causing a stir.
The documentary paints Elon Musk as an emotionally unstable grifter with more power and influence than perhaps any other human. wapo.st/4cLtLzU
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A toaster is a wedding gift. A private-island party paid for by a Putin-connected oligarch is something else. Republicans nearly wore out the subpoena machine investigating Hunter Biden’s foreign relationships. We should not unplug it now. ‘Trust us’ was not enough then, and it is not enough now.
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BREAKING: Donald Trump, who has repeatedly vowed to protect free speech as president, is escalating his effort to silence media outlets who don’t lick his boots, this time by attempting to ban CNN, MSNOW, and Politico from the White House press pool.
Details ↓ rollingstone.com/politics/po…
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President Trump’s daughter-in-law said a Russian oligarch paid for “two incredible nights of celebration” in the Bahamas after her wedding to Donald Trump Jr. but was not involved in the actual nuptials bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See
You wouldn't want to share it or anything :)
youtube.com/watch?v=WLDE9LrG…
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New exclusive: In his 25 years as an OBGYN, Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas repeatedly sued patients for outstanding medical debt. At least 81 were arrested during their court proceedings. Some had debt from c-sections; others from miscarriages.
Makes perfect sense in the current right wing world. Hypocrisy is the feature, not a bug.
